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Weren't the actors doing a lot of the actual driving in that?
Well, I know McQueen liked to do his own stunts (though obviously he didn't do the motorcycle stunt in The Great Escape), and he raced cars, so I think he probably did a fair amount of driving.
You can tell when McQueen is driving and when it's the stunt driver because the angle of the rear-view mirror changes to not show the stunt driver on camera.
Hey you people who get bored easily who are going to start watching Bullit and turn it off before it gets "really good". Keep Watching. It's Totally Worth It.
I just saw that movie 2 weeks ago! I had forgotten about the car chase until the movie was on and then I clapped with glee.
Glee!
Steph! I saw Thor ! It was great! And, uh, yeah, that scene with shirtless Thor was...even I couldn't stop staring. In heterosexual news, Natalie Portman sure is pretty.
I think more than any Marvel movie so far, Thor requires the greatest suspension of disbelief. I mean, it needs a metric fuckton of it. The other movies require to you to buy that one man can become a superhero. This one introduces alien Norse gods and Frost Giants and other worlds into the thus-far fairly grounded universe. So mad props to Kenneth Branagh for making me buy it. Except I still cry, "WHY ARE THERE HORSES? WHERE DID THE HORSES COME FROM?"
I did not know about the random Hawkeye cameo! Nice! That, along with the references to Banner and Stark, pleased me greatly. I really love how Marvel is creating a movieverse. Really really love it. Has this been done before? A bunch of unrelated movies taking place in a shared universe? I racked my brain and came up with the View Askewniverse, but I'm sure there are others. Except this is maybe the first time it's been done with different filmmakers all playing in one sandbox?
You talked Sif up so much, Steph, that I was disappointed that she wasn't a huge part of the movie! She did do some pretty badass things, but she pretty much had me at "I did."
I find alien adavanced science no less plausible than a gamma invested energy-conservation defying Hulk.
Hardy is almost unrecognizable as Bane. He's a lot more imposing and scary-looking than we'd been expecting, actually. What do you think?
I think the people writing this article have not seen a lot of pictures of Tom Hardy.
They definitely are not familiar with Bronson and the marvelousness that is Pnut.
In heterosexual news, Natalie Portman sure is pretty.
Along those lines, I'll note that I felt like I got my money's worth for Pirates watching Penelope Cruz.
Holy shit, she's beautiful. And not in a perfect way. Better. And she's just a soulful actress, too.
So Emmett and I saw Pirates this afternoon and it was fun.
The scenes with the Mermaids were eerie, and beautiful and scary. Very much a vampire vibe and effective.
Many of the critiques of the movie are accurate but it was fine, and had the virtue of being shorter than the 2 and 3.
You talked Sif up so much, Steph, that I was disappointed that she wasn't a huge part of the movie!
Me, too! I would totally watch a movie that was just the Warriors Three and Sif.
I absolutely LOVE this LJ entry about Thor, comparing it to Henry IV, saying that Thor is Hotspur and Loki is John of Lancaster: [link] The descriptions of Sif and the Warriors Three as Thor's friends university were spot-on and cracked my shit up.
Because Sherlock couldn't stay away from Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch set to take a role in The Hobbit.